CCR Talks: Bosch, a Different Renaissance - January 31, 2023

An exhibition has opened recently in Milan entitled “Bosch e un altro rinascimento” (Bosch and another Renaissance). It brings together works by, or influenced by, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), a 16th-century Dutch painter. Bosch had a huge influence on his time as well as on contemporary artists and modern art movements. Bosch or “El Bosco” was a favorite artist of King Philip of Spain, and German Expressionists, Surrealists, and Salvador Dali are among his more modern admirers. This lecture will serve as an introduction to the artist, his life, and times, as well as examine his artworks’ many secrets and conundrums.

When: Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Time: 6:30 p.m. (lecture duration approx. 75 to 90 minutes)
Where: on Zoom
Cost: €10 for members and €15 for non-members.
RSVP: canadarome@gmail.com ATTN Joe by Sat., Jan. 28, 2023. You are financially responsible for your reservation.

CCR Talks: Let's discover German art - May 4, 2021

This year marks the 150th anniversary of German Unification. Let's take the opportunity to look at Germany's amazing history through its artists, their relationship to political power, and their unique contributions to Europe's vibrant artistic legacy in the 20th century.

Die Internationale by Otto Griebel, 1928

When: Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Time:  18:00 (lecture duration is approx. 75 minutes)

Where: on Zoom

Cost: €10 for members and €15 for non-members.

RSVP: canadarome@gmail.com ATTN Joe by Saturday, May 1, 2021. You are financially responsible for your reservation.

CCR Talks: Let's go to... Istanbul (not Constantinople)! - April 13, 2021

The last of the Emperors died on the ramparts of Constantinople in May 1453. Under the Sultans of the Ottoman Turkish dynasties who followed them, the city evolved once again. Let's follow the footsteps of some of the visitors and writers whose accounts help bring the city back to life, as we take a look at modern Istanbul, and the way its history has shaped its amazing skyline.

When: Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Time: 6 p.m. (lecture duration is approx. 75 minutes)

Meeting Place: on Zoom

Cost: €10 for members and €15 for non-members.

RSVP: canadarome@gmail.com ATTN Joe by Sat., Apr. 10, 2021. You are financially responsible for your reservation.

Guest Speaker: An Insider’s View on Raphael’s Transfiguration - April 6, 2021

Achim Gnann has spent years studying Raphael's drawings, both as a university professor and as curator of Italian drawings at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. He has pieced together how the artist created his masterpieces, often under intense pressure to work fast, coordinate a large workshop and ensure the highest quality work. In this online lecture from Vienna, he will use Raphael's preliminary drawings to illustrate how Raphael's celebrated last, great altarpiece, "The Transfiguration," now hanging in the Vatican, reveals how Raphael's mind provided and discarded solutions, and finally reached the layout we see today, only to be thwarted by sudden, unexpected death in April, 1520.

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Time: 6 p.m. Rome time 

Where: on Zoom.

Cost: free

RSVP: canadarome@gmail.com ATTN Marielle.

Guest Lecturer: Museums and Digital Culture in Italy - January 5, 2021

CCR members and friends are really missing their usual cultural activities as the pandemic has shuttered so many museums and monuments in Italy. Yet, now more than ever, some may have discovered there are countless opportunities to learn and explore online. 

Author of "Musei e cultura digitale: Fra narrativa, pratiche e testimonianze" (published by Bibliografica) and a teacher of museum management and multimedia transformation at a number of institutions including the Brera Academy, Maria Elena Colombo will be giving us a talk in English about the exciting transformation currently underway in many of Italy's famous museums. Part of her focus will be on exactly what it takes to tell the stories behind works of art -- online and off!

Her academic background in the preservation of cultural heritage, museology, museography and cultural management, along with a research focus on digital communications, produced a career studded with fascinating highlights. These have included supervising the development of the web site, social media channels and digital products and services of Milan's Museo Diocesano.

When: Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Time: 6 p.m.

Where: remote interactive talk by Zoom

Cost: CCR members free, non-members €5

RSVP: canadarome@gmail.com ATTN Mariele.